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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151619903321

Autore

Pehl Matthew

Titolo

The Making of Working-Class Religion / / Matthew Pehl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, 2016

ISBN

0-252-09884-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Collana

The working class in American history

Disciplina

277.7434

Soggetti

Race - Religious aspects - Christianity

Working class - Religious life - Michigan - Detroit

Electronic books.

Detroit (Mich.) Church history 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The contours of religious consciousness in working-class Detroit, 1910-1935 -- Power, politics, and the struggle over working-class religion, 1910-1938 -- Making worker religion in the New Deal era -- Race, politics, and worker religion in wartime Detroit, 1941-1946 -- The decline of worker religion, 1946-1963 -- Race and the remaking of religious consciousness.

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume, Matthew Pehl focuses on Detroit to examine the religious consciousness constructed by the city's working-class Catholics, African American Protestants and southern-born white evangelicals and Pentecostals between 1910 and 1969. Pehl embarks on an integrative view of working-class faith that ranges across boundaries of class, race, denomination, and time. As he shows, workers in the 1910s and 1920s practiced beliefs characterised by emotional expressiveness, alliance with supernatural forces and incorporation of mass culture's secular diversions into the sacred.